<html xmlns:tei="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><body><h1 align="center" class="head">The Old House</h1><div class="stanza"><p class="line"><span class="smallcaps">The</span> boys who used to come and go</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">In the grey kindly house are flown.</p><p class="line">They have taken the way the young feet know;</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Not alone, not alone!</p><p class="line">Thronged is the road the young feet go.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">Yet in the quiet evening hour</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">What comes, oh, lighter than a bird?</p><p class="line">Touches her cheek, soft as a flower.</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">What moved, what stirred?</p><p class="line">What was the joyous whisper heard?</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">What flitted in the corridor</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Like a boy's shape so dear and slight?</p><p class="line">What was the laughter ran before?</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">Delicate, light,</p><p class="line">Like harps the wind plays out of sight.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line">The boys who used to go and come</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">In the grey house are come again;</p><p class="line">Of the grey house and firelit room</p><p class="line" style="text-indent:5%">They are fain, they are fain:</p><p class="line">They are come home from the night and rain.</p></div></body></html> · Great War